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  • Curt Cizek avatar

    This Lamb Is Safe

    Contributed by Curt Cizek on Sep 19, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 3,930 views

    Using Jesus’ Good Shepherd narrative, I’ve written a sermon for the death of a pastor.

    June, Cori, Steve, family and friends, we gather today not as we have gathered before. A few of us were just recently gathered at Clarence’s bedside as he was recovering from his recent heart attack. Some of us recently celebrated our Savior’s birth together as a family. Many of us congregated ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    All Kinds Of People

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Jan 11, 2001
    based on 90 ratings
     | 4,985 views

    Funeral of a 55 yr. old Christian Woman who died of a brain tumor.

    Prelude 9:45 Song It is Well With My Soul Invocation texts Psalms 33 Sing joyfully to the LORD, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him. Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre. Sing to him a new song play skillfully, and shout for joy. ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Precious In The Sight Of The Lord

    Contributed by Bill Sullivan on Oct 27, 2008
    based on 14 ratings
     | 18,260 views

    This is the memorial service sermon for Barbara Garrett, delivered October 24, 2008

    Precious In the Sight of the Lord Barbara Garrett Memorial Service October 24, 2008 2 p.m. Death is where the rubber of our earthly lives meets the road of ultimate reality. Death is where we are compelled, even in our grief, to decide what we really believe about ultimate reality. What do we ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    "A Small Town Man"

    Contributed by Greg Baskerville on Mar 24, 2005
    based on 14 ratings
     | 4,792 views

    This is a funeral I delivered for the newspaper editor in our small community.

    2 Timothy 4:6-8 “For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, will award ...read more

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    Denomination: Congregational

  • Roger Thomas avatar

    A Cure For Troubled Hearts Series

    Contributed by Roger Thomas on Feb 17, 2007
    based on 37 ratings
     | 22,705 views

    This place (funeral home) has witnessed many a troubled heart! Jesus words offer a prescription for a troubled heart! This is the same cure for a troubled heart that can make a huge difference in our lives.

    Dr. Roger W. Thomas, Preaching Minister First Christian Church, Vandalia, MO The Cure for Troubled Hearts John 14:1-6 Jesus’ Words from John 14:1-6: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Memorial Service

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 30, 2006
    based on 7 ratings
     | 38,665 views

    Memorial Service, Ed became a Christian a short time before his death, Cremation urn was there in the service. He wasn’t buried or scattered so I added the commital into the service.

    Rom. 14:7-8 For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. 8 If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. We are gathered here today to celebrate the life, the love, the kind ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    What Cancer Cannot Do

    Contributed by Bill Sullivan on May 24, 2004
    based on 103 ratings
     | 50,703 views

    There are things that cancer cannot do to the one who follows Christ.

    What Cancer Cannot Do TCF Sermon March 28, 2004 On Saturday March 13, when our dear sister Nancy Reed was first hospitalized, I was driving to the hospital to visit, and I considered that, if this was, indeed, nearing Nancy’s appointed time to go to be with the Lord, we could not, on the Sunday ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    I Can't Hear You

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jan 9, 2001
    based on 44 ratings
     | 4,279 views

    Funeral message for Mr. William Powell Garrett, our Minister of Music and an official of Montgomery County Government

    Scripture: Philippians 4:1, 3-9 Message: I CAN’T HEAR YOU I want to ask our children’s choir to help me with the message today. I want to ask all of you a question. Whenever you would come up here to sing, and you would start out, what did Mr. Garrett always say to you? What did he shout out ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Now That's Living!

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jul 17, 2001
    based on 51 ratings
     | 5,215 views

    Funeral service for Margaret Waddy, retired social worker and community ministry volunteer who, in dementia, became concerned about the depletion of her finances.

    I don’t know anybody who has all they really want. Not really. Not everything. Oh, some of you will piously pretend to be satisfied, but, in my experience, all of us fantasize about having more. Occasionally I watch “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?” and I will shout answers at a deaf TV screen, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Precious In The Sight Of The Lord Is The Death Of His Saints

    Contributed by John Hamby on Jul 27, 2004
    based on 184 ratings
     | 89,521 views

    Funeral for a believer who passed away after a long battle with cancer.

    Funeral Service for ______________ Psalm 116:15 We are gathered here today to honor the life of ____________. It was my joy and privilege to serve as her pastor for the years that the family lived in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Blessed Is The Death Series

    Contributed by Roger Thomas on Feb 17, 2007
    based on 66 ratings
     | 44,772 views

    Moments like this make us, like it or not, think about life and death, the future, our loved ones and our own. We ponder whether life is really worth all of the struggles and hardships that can come our way. This verse is God’s Word about all that. I t

    Dr. Roger W. Thomas, Preaching Minister First Christian Church, Vandalia, MO The Blessing--Revelation 14:13 I offer you one single verse of Scripture to think about today. “Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” says the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Joseph Smith avatar

    Blessings Greater Than The Bounties

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jan 27, 2001
    based on 64 ratings
     | 5,432 views

    Funeral for Robert Hamilton, Jr., a Georgia farmer and retired cook/chef for National Naval Medical Center, who left four accomplished sons and whose spiritual legacy focused on each one’s unique needs.

    A man reaches maturity when he recognizes that he is not the center of the universe. In our younger years, we tend to think that it’s all about what we want, all about our wishes and our whims. But you are growing up when you recognize that the world is a great deal larger than what you want; ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Crème De La Crème

    Contributed by John Bennett on Mar 16, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 4,127 views

    Funeral message for 86 year old Christian man.

    Call to Worship: We have gathered here today to praise God, to celebrate the life of William B. Wilcox Jr. and to bear witness to our faith in the risen Lord. We come together in grief, acknowledging our human loss. May God grant us grace, that in pain we may find comfort…In sorrow hope…in death ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Joseph Smith avatar

    While We Wait

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Mar 26, 2005
    based on 24 ratings
     | 6,432 views

    Funeral service for Elizabeth Wilkey Abernethy, a quiet yet committed long-term church member who struggled with cancer for nine years. We can wait if, like Liz, we are self-controlled, upright, and godly, for the glory of the risen Christ is coming.

    I am not very good at waiting. Are you? I do not like to sit and twiddle my thumbs waiting for something to happen. Do you remember that in days past shoe repair shops would advertize, “Shoes repaired while you wait”? You would go in, sit down, take off your old clodhoppers, and turn them in, ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    How To Face Death With Confidence

    Contributed by John Hamby on Jul 8, 2004
    based on 76 ratings
     | 18,911 views

    Funeral for a saved man with years of service in the local church.

    How to Face Death With Confidence Funeral Service (2 Timothy 4:6-8) We are gathered here this afternoon to celebrate the life of_____________. We also gather with the desire to comfort his family both by our words and by our presence. And ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist